Pete Buttigieg Says Trump 'Unleashed Forces' in Iran He Doesn't Know How to Contain [View all]
Pete Buttigieg criticized President Donald Trump for not grasping the long-term consequences of entering another Middle East war, suggesting he “unleashed forces” in Iran he doesn’t “know how to contain.”
On the latest episode of “Raging Moderates,” the former Transportation Secretary warned that Trump getting the U.S. mired in another conflict in the Middle East could have far reaching effects that might last for years. Buttigieg was also concerned about the loss of American lives, as the death count in the new war reached 13.
“You think about Vietnam – nobody thought that that was going to last a long time. Nobody thought that was really going to lead to major troops on the ground,” Buttigieg said. “It started with advisers and then it was troops and then it was more troops and then it was years and years and years. You know, when I got to Afghanistan as a lieutenant – that was 13 years into the war – and I thought I was one of the last troops turning out the lights, and it was almost a decade more before that conflict was over.”
He added: “So, they’ve unleashed forces that I don’t think even they know how to contain and we don’t know what the consequences will be to our economy or in terms of how many more troops have to go out there.”
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